15 Fun Math Facts

Tired of going through those numbers, symbols and formulae in your math text book? Time to take a break then. In here, we have listed a few math facts that are enthralling and fun at the same. You might not require some of these facts in life but hey, this is just for fun; right? Your knowledge would increase. Therefore, it does count. Anyway, enough of all that rambling; let’s begin without further ado.

The square of 111,111,111 gives a result of 12,345,678,987,654,321.

Ancient Babylonians used to do math in a base of 60 instead of a base 10. That’s the only reason for which we have 360 degrees in a circle and 60 seconds in a minute. Source- Babylonian numerals.

2,520 is considered to be the smallest number that’s divisible by all numbers between 1 to 10. Source- 2520 (number).

There’s a problem called the birthday problem or the birthday paradox in probability theory that states that in a group of 23 people, there is a 50% chance of at least two having a birthday on the same day.

If we do a multiplication of the number 21978 by 4, you’ll get the result as 87912 which is the exact reverse of the initial number 21978.

2200 years ago, a Greek scholar Eratosthenes found out the circumference of the Earth on pure estimation and his estimation was also remarkably accurate. Another thing to know here is the fact that he never left Egypt to find that out. Source- Eratosthenes.

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